In charcoal gray with panels of bronze sequins, the wool-and-cashmere-blend sweater ($275 at saksfifthavenue.com) is cut generously without being overpowering.
The dining room, Mr. Schlesinger said, cost about $35,000 to decorate, including the $8,000 French bronze chandelier, gold Tibetan wool rug and silk window treatments that puddle onto the floor.
There are also shades that the curator recognizes as "Alaïa colors": a deep, faded purple, a dusty bronze or black, lighted in fluffy wool or gleaming as leather, perforated with silver eyelets.
These days fall colors like plum and bronze dominate, along with luxurious leather and wool fabrics.
Cammarelle, who won the world title last November and bronze in Athens four years ago, is a dyed-in-the-wool amateur who would struggle to sell tickets as a professional, but he knows how to win.
Men and women dressed in wool; men wore armour, weapons, and ornaments of bronze or iron; women had numerous fibulae, torques, bracelets, girdles, and ornamental pendants.
Remains of Bronze Age costumes are limited, but they show various relatively simple wool garments adorned with bronze ornaments and attachments.
Commercial seals in England were considerably increased during the reign of Edward I, when double-sided bronze dies occurred for various customs, subsidies, and the delivery of wool and hides.
In 1425, when the wool merchants' guild of Florence commissioned its second set of gilded bronze, relief-covered doors for the Baptistery, it spared no expense but took few risks.
The colors were refreshing — those soft camels and taupes mixed with bronze, pale blue and bitter yellow — and the worn texture of the wools added to the nice, unfussy quality of many of the clothes.
